I felt the same way, and commented on the original post about lack of documentation and actually showing the potential user something.
I thought that maybe it was a dry run test, but didn't want to accuse Dru of not having any product when it was possible he had spent months building this.
It's a shame that in order to test out hypothesis and expect to get adequate feedback, it has come to lying to customers about the product being offered.
Particularly when they have a 'free - get started' button, making the user think they are about to get the product.
Nowhere on the sign-up page does it say the product is in beta testing (which of course it isn't, it's just an idea at the moment).
I'm all for discovering what the customer wants.
I'm not for telling the customer you have something to offer when you don't.
While I'm also not too fond of the deception - especially when you come back later to the same people and admit it was a ruse of sorts, he did seem to get good results and publicity. These posts have definitely garnered far more attention than some of my startups' own posts that linked to our idea and asked for feedback on what is the exact same idea.
I thought that maybe it was a dry run test, but didn't want to accuse Dru of not having any product when it was possible he had spent months building this.
It's a shame that in order to test out hypothesis and expect to get adequate feedback, it has come to lying to customers about the product being offered. Particularly when they have a 'free - get started' button, making the user think they are about to get the product.
Nowhere on the sign-up page does it say the product is in beta testing (which of course it isn't, it's just an idea at the moment).
I'm all for discovering what the customer wants.
I'm not for telling the customer you have something to offer when you don't.